Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-11

Correspondence of the Gazette.
OK THE TRAIN, May 9-About the fir-t
town of Importance one meets on the
Transcontinental Railroad after leaving
Texarkana and the pineY woods is Paris.
The depot is small, mean and rickety, but
the city, as it appears in the distance, is
i pretentious. Several new roads sre near
ing completion and the faces of the Par
isians are jubilant. In fact, they are or
gauizing a Jubilee, whereat all the inter-
state military and civic organizations will
contest Tor prizes. Paris is plucky.
COOL CASH.
Whatever benefits may accrue from the
rigid enforcement of the provisions of
the interstate commerce law, one thing
is certain. The Bohemian missionary
can no longer plead his poverty or his
profession in abatement of the conduc-
tors demand for a ticket. You may
tske your position in the last seat of the
second car in the most orthodox style;
YOU may air your eloquence and exhaust
your eXpletives to your hearts content;
you may threaten him with the dire pow
er of the press, that functionary has one
monotous answer to all your entreaties:
cricket, sir" You cannot, as in the
halcyon days of old, hand lthis Cerberus
q quarter and ride 50 worth. You must
go to the ticket office and lay down your
cool money-your luminous, borrowed
money, for the pasteboard privilege of
riding. Orpheus might beguile, or Hera-
cles choke old Charon into rowing him
over the river, but did these worthless
live in the present day, they would -
walk. But after all, there is a pleasure
of an indefnable character in the pos
session of g railroad ticket. At
ter the heresy of paying money to
8 railroad for the privilege of going
somewhere, has lost its magnitude by
familiarity, you commence to feel the
sweets of a reaction. You realize that
you have not signed away your life, your
liberty and your right to recover damages
If the railroad company should relieve
you of an arm or leg. There is no
longer trepidation, bat positive enjoy
ment in the thought that you own, for the
time being, an interest in vast corpora
ton. The iron horse that hauls you
along may be spawned and break down
or 8 rheumatic bridge may give way, but
you are safe. The "bulWark of civil
liberty will award you damages, full
and ample. So firmly does this idea of
damages fix itself on the mind that, when
you are landed at your destination, safe
and sound; you debark with regret that
you had not lost at least couple of fin
ger, worth $1,000 piece, for the sake of
your family.
A FERTILE REGION. .s...
The section of country lying between
Red River county and Fort Worfb may
well be called the garden spot of earth.
Most newspaper readers will realize that
the "Eden' of Texas is permanently
shifting its position and tarries Just
wherever q writer happens to be. The
"garden spot" however, has a static
detiniteness which locates it in a manner
Seriously, there couldn't be q more fertile
section and, as we rolled along, a great
cloud bank followed us which soon burst
and drenched the luXuriant heritage
making it, if possible, more green. There
is no waste land along this road; every
acre is tillabIe and productive.
PROHIBITION CHIT-CHAT.
People are liable to talk about anything
to pass the time, while riding on tram.
In moral Texas there can be no card
playing on the cars, and the newspaper
and cigar soon become uninterest
ing. The passengers must talk, and talk
about anything. What better question
/
ment to the constitution? Certainly none
which gives scope to so many and varied
arguments. It is q question, too, that
everybody can discuss without being OBJ
trusive. l noted down two arguments
which l overheard which will give an
idea of the general run of discussions:
l. 81 oppose prohibition because [ be.
lieve it is an undue interference with per-
sonal liberty. When the time comes that
l am incapable of taking care Of myself,
l will surrender my citizenship and be-
come pton. The state of Texas has no
right to tell me what l shall or shall not
drink, nor has she the right to prevent
me from indulging my appetite in moder-
alton because some one else INDUCES his
to excess. Each man should stand re-
!sponsible before the law for his own acts,
and if 8 man gets drunk there is a law to
prosecute him for the offense. This
pGternalism is ennervatiug TO the citizen,
and tends to enfeeble his Individuality.
believe in full, free and ample liberty to
the citizen, holding him at all times
amenable to the law and responsible for
: his acts. An American citizen is a respon-
, sible being, and he requires no legislative
or constitutional enactment to chaperone
him"
No. z. 81 agree with you, my frlend, IN
} all essentialssbut we look at the ques-
81 ton from q different standpoint. You
tfsastempt - form syllogism out of TWO
aHEag3dizing principles and reach con-
/ clusion by the mere farce of personal pre-
objection. believe that to certain ex-
tent prohibitory law is an interference
' with personal liberty, but SO is the law
against bigamy, false swearing, murder,
S theft and the whole calender of criminal
Y laws? The hog law, the fence law, the
school law and in fact all other laws are
u sbridgements of personal liberty. Yet,
g without these laws man would be in q
s state of nature which would be simply
! bsrbarlsm and anarchy. look upon the
liquor traffic as an evil in our midst which
+ we should eradicate, not only because il
}. Injuries the Individual who is over-indulg
ent, for assume he is a responsible be-
ing, but because it Is an injury to the So
cial family. in thst If ton1ptG yOUnO anC